AC_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF

Giovanni Bajo rasky@develer.com
Mon Sep 6 14:36:00 GMT 2004


Zack Weinberg wrote:

>>> For mainline, I think it would be better if you cut us over to
>>> plain AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, which works correctly when cross-compiling in
>>> autoconf 2.5x.
>>
>> That isn't a simple one line fix though. :-)
>
> Yes, well, mainline is the place for not-simple-one-line-fixes.
> Although, we are on the threshold of stage 3 of development, so this
> might be better held for 3.6.

Why? I thought that Stage 3 was for fixing bugs, even if you need to
rearrange the code or do non trivial changes. It is the release branch where
we fix only regressions, and possibly with one liners.
Am I wrong?

Giovanni Bajo



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